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    Use "territorial" in a sentence

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    territorial


    1. We eye each other like a couple of territorial felines but then my sense of the absurd hits me and I burst out laughing, taking him with me


    2. My territorial instincts were kicking into high gear, and Savannah was definitely mine


    3. Crafty Coyote was a devout carnivore, fully dedicated to and focused on his daily hunting activities of small animals that might be found innocently and naively wandering around his territorial domain


    4. Galloping Gopher, on the other hand, was a devout omnivore, fully dedicated to and focused on her daily searching for a variety of grasses, seeds, nuts, berries, grains, and worms and insects (protein primers!) that might be found innocently and naively hanging out in her territorial domain


    5. Yes, it was a dog-eat-dog (well, coyote-eat-gopher) world, where the apparent universal, natural aggressiveness of territorial animals and most primates led to frequent violent encounters in the seemingly peaceful prairie


    6. It is a mistake to imagine that those territorial jurisdictions took their origin from the feudal law


    7. They remained for several years in quiet possession of this revenue; but in 1767, administration laid claim to their territorial acquisitions, and the revenue arising from them, as of right belonging to the crown ; and the company, in compensation for this claim, agreed to pay to government £400,000 a-year


    8. This increase of dividend, therefore, when it had risen to its utmost height, could augment their annual payments, to their proprietors and government together, but by £680,000 , beyond what they had been before their late territorial


    9. What the gross revenue of those territorial acquisitions was supposed to amount to, has already been mentioned ; and by an account brought by the Cruttenden East Indiaman in 1769, the neat revenue, clear of all deductions and military charges, was stated at two millions forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-seven pounds


    10. Different plans have been proposed by the different parties in parliament for the better management of its affairs; and all those plans seem to agree in supposing, what was indeed always abundantly evident, that it is altogether unfit to govern its territorial possessions

    11. "Men think it's there for territorial display


    12. Two days later it was our turn to leave the front and we handed over to a Scottish Territorial Battalion we gave them the same information and help that we had been given by the Welsh


    13. Amongst these we may reckon an additional shilling in the pound land tax, for three years; the two millions received from the East-India company, as indemnification for their territorial acquisitions ; and the one hundred and ten thousand pounds received from the bank for the renewal of their charter


    14. transactions with vessels from the belligerent nations within its territorial ports


    15. In Somalia, for example, humanitarian efforts spearheaded by the United Nations (UN) to provide famine relief to that starving country has resulted in inter-clan conflicts among tribal warlords who perceive such intervention (nation-building) as a threat to their territorial sovereignty


    16. Port-au-Prince is going up in smoke while American Naval vessels are anchored in territorial waters waiting for order to be restored


    17. Rather than remain neutral, Buchanan appointed a pro slavery territorial governor, though free staters were the majority


    18. Four of the fifteen territorial congressmen elected in the last election favor independence


    19. Ancient blood feud, territorial wars, revenge—any of those would have seemed reasonable, at least coming from a vampire


    20. , house rules) and territorial

    21. Also, the captain said that we can’t dump garbage in the territorial waters of the US, especially something like a dead horse


    22. After its unsuccessful bid to put the issue for regional discussion among ASEAN members, Cambodia is now seeking a multilateral solution to this longstanding bilateral territorial dispute, threatening to put the United Nations Security Council on the spot


    23. 6 square kilometres adjoining the temple complex has been under Cambodia's territorial sovereignty since the International Court of Justice's landmark adjudication in 1962


    24. Eventually as territorial expansion brought these groups (that later became societies) into collision, the name or names of their separate gods sounded strange to all but themselves


    25. Rondon believed that the internecine conflicts with rival groups were based on previous hostilities and territorial disputes


    26. Russia provided grain, oil and minerals in return for promises of favorable territorial concessions


    27. Although the Indians were said to have lived in harmony with the land, many tribes were clearly territorial and hierarchies developed with the use of force


    28. about the giant Russian territorial grabs of Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible?


    29. After giving Hitler a chunk of Czechoslovakia as, “the end of Germany’s territorial ambitions in Europe,” Chamberlain went back to England proclaiming “Peace in Our Time


    30. Jesse was also very possessive and territorial

    31. 1 billion barrels of oil lie beneath federally controlled territorial waters and there are 660 million acres of government owned land in the west and on military


    32. Our territorial instinct is so strong that over the long term it is unignorable and undeniable


    33. Although other members of my family have traveled to the west and overseas, I’m basically a home boy and territorial in nature


    34. Most Venak settlements and cities are near the coastline, and their Wards extend some three hundred and twenty kilometers out to sea in order to encompass their territorial waters, so few of them will be in danger


    35. "Hey, right," Paulson said, "the ammo is within the territorial waters of Vietnam, therefore it's in Vietnam


    36. Whitey studied the territorial maps and concluded that Mistake Three was believing in the boundaries of Vietnam as shown on the maps


    37. Whereas Ho Chi Minh was using all of the territory in Indochina including Laos and Cambodia to fight his war, LBJ and the SecDef only saw the war zone in terms of the territorial boundary line around Vietnam


    38. territorial waters one mile off the Massachusetts coast, he was outraged, as were anti-Soviet demonstrators in several American cities


    39. territorial waters from 12 to 24 nautical miles to give federal authorities more area in which to enforce immigration, customs and environmental laws


    40. territorial waters after 1794

    41. territorial and international waters


    42. Most Venak settlements and cities are near the coastline, and their Wards extend some two hundred miles out to sea in order to encompass their territorial waters, so few of them will be in danger


    43. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state


    44. The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the tribe, makes difficult the evolution of the supertribe -- the territorial state


    45. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind


    46. was giving out territorial franchises


    47. They derided the ruder, unsophisticated Bossonians, and hard feeling grew between them—the Aquilonians despising the Bossonians and the latter resenting the attitude of their masters – who now boldly called themselves such, and treated the Bossonians like conquered subjects, taxing them exorbitantly, and conscripting them for their wars of territorial expansion—wars the profits of which the Bossonians shared little


    48. If the Romanov gold is hidden in Canadian or United States territorial waters, do you honestly think they'd risk east-west detente by sending in a KGB salvage crew to haul it up? It doesn't make sense


    49. territorial waters -- that's Seattle down to San Francisco, or better still, within the Alaska territorial limits


    50. As the hound waded into deeper water and started to roll and splash, the territorial serpent rose to the surface and extended his full six and one half foot body to warn the errant canine away








































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    Synonyms for "territorial"

    territorial territorial reserve

    "territorial" definitions

    nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit


    a territorial military unit


    of or relating to a territory


    displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders


    belonging to the territory of any state or ruler